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IT’S official: New York is deep into the winter work doldrums. The holiday half-days are long gone, the New Year’s resolutions about increased productivity are long abandoned, and the next round of bonuses will be a long time coming. Yet you still need to drag yourself to the office every day with enough energy to attempt to achieve something.

What better time to read about how to work your way to career success, right? Well, that’s what book publishers are thinking, too. Which is why bookstore shelves are currently loaded with catchy career titles for every personality, in every position.

Whether you’re a highly paid office A-lister, a mid-level employee with a soul-sapping job, a self-starter with six-figure dreams, or a corporate slave with a freelancer’s soul looking to break free, there’s a book out there hoping to help you. But will it?

To find out, we distilled a range of this season’s career self-help books down to their essential parts, so you know what you’re getting before you buy. See if any of these tomes do their job and work for you.

Title: “You Call the Shots,” by Cameron Johnson (Free Press).

The guru: The 21-year-old Doogie Howser of entrepreneurs, whose autobiography, “15-Year-Old CEO,” published only in Japanese, became a best seller.

How it’s packaged: As an autobiography. Johnson walks us through the rights and wrongs of his own businesses, starting with the first $50,000 he netted from selling Beanie Babies online … at age 12.

Who it’s for: Anyone who wants out from under the thumb of “the man.”

The Secret to success: Remembering that “No matter what your title is or how you see your role, you’re in the business of selling.”

What’s holding you back: On one end, fear of risk. On the other, thinking too big too soon and spending too much too fast.

Typical advice: “Think of ideas that will require the least cash investment up front and the least in advertising money, especially for your first venture.”

Your office enemy: People over 30.

Celebrity endorser: Donald Trump, who was impressed when he got a letter from an 8-year-old Cameron.

Recurring jargon: “. . . and I was only [insert preposterously young age here] years old.”

Buy this book if: You need a bar mitzvah present.

Title: “The Energy Bus,” by Jon Gordon (Wiley Publishing).

The guru: A motivational speaker on “energy coaching,” and the co-founder of the PEP Positive Energy Program.

How it’s packaged: As a parable about a businessman named George who boards a bus that teaches him “The 10 Rules for the Ride of Your Life.”

Who it’s for: Motivational-poster enthusiasts.

The secret to success: Positive leadership.

What’s holding you back:

Cynicism.

Typical advice: “Your positive energy and vision must be greater than anyone’s and everyone’s negativity. Your certainty must be greater than anyone’s doubt.”

Your office enemy: “Energy vampires” who suck the life out of you and your goals with their negative attitudes.

Celebrity endorser: Danny Gans, Las Vegas entertainer of the year.

Recurring jargon: You need to be the CEO of your company – the “Chief Energy Officer.”

Buy this book if: You won’t mind being transferred to the Akron office.

Title: “The Anti 9-to-5 Guide,” by Michelle Goodman (Avalon)

The guru: A cubicle expat who “learned the hard way about working outside the 9-to-5 realm without winding up on food stamps.”

How it’s packaged: As a step-by-step guide to giving up your corporate paycheck to find your passion.

Who it’s for: Hipsterish chick-lit fans (the cover is pink) who are willing to take in roommates or make their own lunch every day to make their dreams possible.

The secret to success: Finding a career you’re passionate about so you feel less like “an organ-grinding monkey.”

What’s holding you back: Rent, health insurance, college loans, fear.

Typical advice: “Perfect isn’t really an attainable goal, since we’re all flawed in our own charming ways. Wouldn’t ‘really f—ing great’ work just as well as the mythical ‘perfect?'”

Recurring jargon: Engage your CORE (control, ownership, reach and endurance) at the center of your AQ (adversity quotient) to search out a team with AWE (adversity factor, why factor, ego factor) who can help you carry out a system of PROPS (portable, replicable, original, personal, simple).

Buy this book if: You consider a dental checkup just cause for a sick day.

Title: “It’s Called Work for a Reason,” by Larry Winget (Gotham Books)

How it’s packaged: Larry shouts snippets of the ugly truth about your inability to live up to your potential.

Who it’s for: Anyone who’s not the boss. And since he insists that “everyone has a boss” … well, everyone.

The secret to success:Producing results and shutting the hell up with all those boring excuses for your apathy.

What’s holding you back: Your own lazy butt. Two-hour lunches on the company clock. Following the Rosie vs. Donald smackdown on YouTube. Office birthday gatherings catered by the Cupcake Cafe. Fun at the office.

Typical advice: “If your business sucks, it is because as a businessperson, you suck. If your life sucks, it’s because YOU suck.”